New Computer

[helen99]

rialian and I went to Microcenter on Sunday to pick up a new motherboard. This meant that we also had to get a new processor and memory, because the slots had changed.

While we were there, we found a 200-gig HD and an ostentatiously obnoxious, shiny black case for a reasonable price, so we decided to be reasonable and use the basic case and disk we already had go for it. To our credit, we did reuse some parts of the old system. Ok, so we only reused the DVD burner. Heh.

Anyway, we got the Stuff home and rialian spent the evening assembling it, only to realize that the hard disk required an IDE-to-SATA adapter in order to connect the power supply to the disk. Another trip to Microcenter became necessary, which we planned for the following day.

Also planned for that day was a trip to see fishy1 and scraun23, who live about a minute away from Microcenter, so it wasn't really an extra trip at all, but still frustrating for rialian, who had hoped to get the system running Sunday.

It should be known that the home of fishy1 and scraun23 is the Land Where Time Runs Backwards.

In fact, they have a clock on their wall which is a mirror image of a normal clock, and it DOES run backwards. While there, the inclination was not to leave to work on the computer, but rather to bring the computer there to work on it. Presently, we called lyssabard and tlttlotd to join us in the timewarp. While scraun23 and tlttlotd went to microcenter to get a power supply for their house server, rialian went back to Rockville and picked up my computer-in-progress. Eventually, they all returned, and my computer was fetched to the Land Where Time Runs Backwards. Meanwhile, we'd been joined by a few more people!

So... here we were at this impromptu event, involving fishy1's magic cider (this batch is even better than the last batch, and continues to get better), my computer, the resurrection of their server whose power supply had gone bad, jewelry-making by lyssabard, and general deep socializing about Things That Matter. The Force, the Farce, the Music, and the Geek were strong. Games of Go were played. Servers were resurrected. Computers were built. New sparkly jewelry was created.

Such was the environment where The Shiny Teh Shineh achieved Life at about 1:00 am on May 29 2007... We continue to load files and email from other disks - that should be done by tonight.

Comments

[historychick49.livejournal.com]

Geesh, for fifty bucks I'd've gotten the new case, too. And by the way, it's Teh Shineh, not The Shiny. I mean, c'mon, you gotta get with the times. It's all about annoying mistyped words, now. *grins*

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Considering the manner in which it was spawned and its glowing appearance, I have to agree that Teh Shineh indeed works, and is certainly preferable to "The Shining"...

[historychick49.livejournal.com]

True, true. I mean, you don't exactly want Jack Nicholson as a psycho ax-murderer as the model for your computer.

[helen99.livejournal.com]

I was tempted to call it Christine, but I figure that might be a bad idea too. Eh well...

[historychick49.livejournal.com]

Yeah.... it's probably not a good idea to name your computer after ANY Stephen King-esque character. It might give your computer ideas.